★ A tender story about the friendship between a little boy and an elderly man.
★ About helpfulness, courage and bringing others happiness.

Kalle and his mother live in a cozy house, right under the roof. Downstairs, Master Bellman has his workshop. He is an inventor and has already built many practical items. Every afternoon, Kalle and he tinker on something and build things. But Master Bellman is getting old and soon wants to close his workshop for good. But before he does, he wants to invent something that will surpass everything that he has made before: a sound machine that will play the most beautiful melodies the world has ever heard. And Kalle is supposed to help him.They set to work with great enthusiasm, until one day Master Bellman falls ill and can no longer come to theworkshop.

Now it is up to Kalle. Thanks to his eagerness and persistence, he manages to secretly finish the sound machine. And by springtime, Master Bellman awaits a surprise he would never have dared to dream of!

Anna Marshall
has been writing and illustrating children's books for more than ten years. Her favourite topics are diversity, integration and inter-generational themes. Together with her family, se lives in Karlsruhe, close to the French-German border.